Sansibar - Sans Musique

"Rushing us headlong into a vorticist maelstrom of hard-edged drum stutter and polychromatic synth fragmentation, Sansibar sophomore long-player for Kalahari Oyster Cult - “Sans Musique” - tackles the very essence of post-trancey, breaks-loaded UK blends with unabashed joy to wreak havoc on his path. Throughout seven tracks oozing burnt kerosene and depleted uranium residue merged with a hint of sacred incense, Sansibar deploys his extra-wide vision for the present and future of dance music.

“Scully” attacks pedal to the metal, hi-intensity bass onslaughts and knee-buckling breaks roaring as the groove slings us at bullet-speed into a hot, narrow barrel of floor-focused aggression. Fusing rattling DnB engineering with Goa trance motifs, “Force of Equilibrium” showcases Sansibar’s hybrid attachment to functionality and headspace fractalisation. Hi-velocity rimshots, pep vox samples and alien basslines blazing, “NRJ” eases us into a shape-shifting network of underground tunnels dwelled by shady raving creatures, harking back to Prodigy’s early wares and subsequent offshoots of the 90s era.

One to bend your mind to, “Teal’c” taps into an even darker vein with its fast-cascading hats and von Oswald-ian dub whirlwind set against a surgically laid-down, unstoppable EBM bass comber. Jagged and oneiric to the finest extent, “Send It” peeps at prime Hokusai and Photek material in its first stretch, slowly making room for further spacious liquid junglism as bars run by. Cranking the 2-step/garage power levels up a notch, “Fantasmas” sends us spinning into orbit right away, while the LP’s closing track “Aurora” takes us on a languidly serene voyage of a finale, tempo slowed-down and suave trip-hop flavours exuding with increased sensitiveness."

Lush vibes.  I like.

Stoked af for this, Sansibar is a great producer/DJ and Kalahari Oyster Club is a far more than solid label

Love that there is a trance resurgence going on. This, Priori, and Ronan have all been hitting these buttons for me lately.

Send It is one of the best tracks I have heard in a looong time.

this gig always cracks me up--big jams though:

  On 1/29/2022 at 9:28 PM, batch said:

 

 

 

this gig always cracks me up--big jams though:

 

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Lol. But what a great set!

  On 1/29/2022 at 2:14 AM, Extralife said:

Love that there is a trance resurgence going on. This, Priori, and Ronan have all been hitting these buttons for me lately.

Creative use of trance in these contexts (as well as the techtrance stuff that was happening in Denmark with the likes of Mama Snake, Courtesy, Schacke, and 'em) is really nice. It's also nice when the breaks are more junglistic, like in this track

Or when it's in a more atmospheric, electro-y vibe, with a little tranciness like here:

I'm also still quite partial to the hardcore trance which was coming out of Germany and Benelux in the 90s where it was like trance plus acid techno plus gabber all at once. And the occasional bit of select goa can scratch a particular itch. That's not to say I have an especially high opinion of trance in general, though

Some nice tunes on this, I hadn't heard of sansibar before. I don't really like trancey stuff in general but this is nice